| Week #8: January 8, 2017 |
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An Observation: Although the bar is set pretty high, this week was the most devastating for our country so far.
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Trump announced he will make major policy announcements via Twitter. Read More About This |
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Trump's executive producer credit appeared in the "Celebrity Apprentice" premiere. Read More About This |
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Trump sent a divisive, incendiary New Year's tweet -- as opposed to departing President Obama's warm and generous version. Read More About This |
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On New Year's Day, Trump promised a revelation on hacking, either Tuesday or Wednesday. This was a lie -- it never came. Read More About This |
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In a puzzling exchange, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough tweeted that he spent New Year's Eve watching tv with his children, until a photo showed he and Mika chatting up Trump at Mar-A-Lago. Read More About This; Click here, also |
| 6. |
Trump appointed yet another Goldman Sachs executive to an economic leadership position, this one overseeing markets (SEC Chair). GS stock is up 35% since Election Day. Read More About This; Click here, also |
| 7. |
WSJ Editor Gerard Baker said his paper would not refer to Trump's lies, as "lies." Read More About This |
| 8. |
Trump aligned himself with Assange/Wikileaks, repeatedly -- despite at one point, saying the media was making this up. Trump ally Sean Hannity interviewed Assange for his show. Read More About This; Click here, also |
| 9. |
Trump repeatedly dismissed US Intelligence agencies' findings on Russian hacking, and referred to them in quotes: "Intelligence." Read More About This |
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Trump announced his will appoint Pam Bondi, the former Florida AG who received an illegal payment of $25k from Trump Foundation in exchange for not investigating Trump University, to a top White House spot. Read More About This |
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Senator McCain held a publicly televised Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Russian hacking of our election. For the first time, Americans got to hear from intelligence leadership. Read More About This |
| 12. |
Senators McCain (R-AZ) and Graham (R-SC) said they had given up on efforts to push Leader McConnell (R-KY) for a special panel on Russia interference. Read More About This |
| 13. |
Trump lashed out in tweets at General Motor and Toyota, causing both stocks to plummet. In the case of Toyota, allegations were false. Read More About This; Click here, also |
| 14. |
Trump falsely took credit for jobs at a Ford plant. Ford CEO publicly stated the rationale for choosing the US over Mexico was not related to Trump. Read More About This |
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WAPO announced the launch of a weekly column on what Trump got wrong on Twitter each week. Read More About This |
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House GOP took a secret vote to take power over the independent Office of Congressional Ethics. After public outcry and calls to representatives by voters, the plan was scuttled. Trump had tweeted he was for the change, but against the timing. Read More About This; Click here, also |
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Trump started referring to Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer as a "clown." Read More About This |
| 18. |
House GOP revived an obscure 1876 rule that allows them cut the pay of federal workers to $1. Read More About This |
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1Trump said he would ask the American taxpayers to pay for his infamous Wall on the Mexican border. Read More About This |
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Trump promised to downsize intelligence agencies, including the CIA and Office of DNI, saying both were politicized. Read More About This |
| 21. |
Ex CIA-director James Woolsey resigned from Trump's transition team, saying he did not want to "fly under false colors" any longer. Read More About This |
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Breaking decades of precedent, Trump said he would recall all Obama overseas envoys immediately on Jan 20th, before their replacements have been appointed. Read More About This |
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Trump tweeted his apparent displeasure with the rating of "Celebrity Apprentice" under Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying he got "swamped" compared to when Trump hosted the show. Read More About This |
| 24. |
Report cited that 50 Trump electors were allegedly illegally seated. Rep. Maxine Waters and other Democratic representatives, stood to protest, but couldn't find a single Senator to join them. Read More About This |
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After meeting with the heads of the DNI, CIA and FBI, Trump continued to deny the Russian hacking, and instead pressed for a congressional investigation of leaks to NBC (something congress doesn't investigate). Trump said there was no impact on the election. Read More About This |
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Later that day, an Intelligence report was made public detailing Putin's desire to hurt Clinton and help Trump, and the many ways Russia interfered. The report did not assess if there was an impact on the election (another Trump lie). Read More About This |
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Trump blamed the DNC and Democrats for being hacked. The Intelligence report also indicates Republicans were hacked, although that info was not leaked. Read More About This |
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Trump continued to side with Wikileaks and Russian, and against Intelligence. Even after learning Russia had hacked our election, he called intelligence a "political witch hunt," and next day tweeted only "stupid" people or fools would think having a good relationship with Russia was a bad thing. Read More About This |
Replicated from: https://medium.com/@Amy_Siskind/week-8-experts-in-authoritarianism-advise-to-keep-a-list-of-things-subtly-changing-around-you-so-edba316c17b3
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